sockdolager

English

Etymology

Unknown, 1827 US,[1] presumably fanciful variant of sock (“to hit”); compare contemporary fanciful American coinages.[1][2][3]

Various speculative etymologies have been suggested,[3] such as corruption of doxology, due to this occurring at the end of church worship, hence “finality”.[2][4]

Noun

sockdolager (plural sockdolagers)

(US, slang, dated) A hard hit, a knockout or finishing blow, or conclusive argument.
- 1831, James Kirke Paulding, Lion of the West:
  He’ll come off as badly as a feller I once hit a sledge hammer lick over the head—a real sogdolloger.
- 1838, James Fenimore Cooper, Home as Found:
  There is but one ‘sogdollager’ in the universe, and that is in Lake Oswego.
- 1859, Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms
  "I gave the fellow a socdolager over his head with the barrel of my gun,"
- 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 20, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], OCLC 458431182:
  The thunder would go rumbling and grumbling away, and quit—and then rip comes another flash and another sockdologer.
(US, slang, dated) Something large or otherwise exceptional; a whopper.
- 1953, Ray Bradbury, The Murderer:
  Hey, Al, thought I'd call you from the locker room out here at Green Hills. Just made a sockdolager hole in one! A hole in one, Al! (etc.)
(US, fishing) A combination of two hooks which close upon each other, by means of a spring, as soon as the fish bites.

Alternative forms

sockdologer
sogdolloger

Derived terms

sockdologizing

References

America in So Many Words: Words That Have Shaped America, by David K. Barnhart, Allan A. Metcalf, “1827 sockdolager”, p. 127
Michael Quinion (created 17 October 1998, last updated 20 April 2006), “Sockdolager”, in World Wide Words.
14 American English Abroad, Richard W. Bailey, 14.1 Introduction, pp. 456–458, in The Cambridge History of the English Language, Volume 6, 1992
Dictionary of Americanisms (1848), by John Russell Bartlett

[barnhart-1] America in So Many Words: Words That Have Shaped America, by David K. Barnhart, Allan A. Metcalf, “1827 sockdolager”, p. 127

[quinion-2] Michael Quinion (created 17 October 1998, last updated 20 April 2006), “Sockdolager”, in World Wide Words.

[bailey-3] 14 American English Abroad, Richard W. Bailey, 14.1 Introduction, pp. 456–458, in The Cambridge History of the English Language, Volume 6, 1992

[4] Dictionary of Americanisms (1848), by John Russell Bartlett

单词	sockdolager
释义	sockdolager English Etymology Unknown, 1827 US,[1] presumably fanciful variant of sock (“to hit”); compare contemporary fanciful American coinages.[1][2][3] Various speculative etymologies have been suggested,[3] such as corruption of doxology, due to this occurring at the end of church worship, hence “finality”.[2][4] Noun sockdolager (plural sockdolagers) (US, slang, dated) A hard hit, a knockout or finishing blow, or conclusive argument. 1831, James Kirke Paulding, Lion of the West: He’ll come off as badly as a feller I once hit a sledge hammer lick over the head—a real sogdolloger. 1838, James Fenimore Cooper, Home as Found: There is but one ‘sogdollager’ in the universe, and that is in Lake Oswego. 1859, Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms "I gave the fellow a socdolager over his head with the barrel of my gun," 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 20, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], OCLC 458431182: The thunder would go rumbling and grumbling away, and quit—and then rip comes another flash and another sockdologer. (US, slang, dated) Something large or otherwise exceptional; a whopper. 1953, Ray Bradbury, The Murderer: Hey, Al, thought I'd call you from the locker room out here at Green Hills. Just made a sockdolager hole in one! A hole in one, Al! (etc.) (US, fishing) A combination of two hooks which close upon each other, by means of a spring, as soon as the fish bites. Alternative forms sockdologer sogdolloger Derived terms sockdologizing See also Appendix:Fanciful 19th century American coinages References America in So Many Words: Words That Have Shaped America, by David K. Barnhart, Allan A. Metcalf, “1827 sockdolager”, p. 127 Michael Quinion (created 17 October 1998, last updated 20 April 2006), “Sockdolager”, in World Wide Words. 14 American English Abroad, Richard W. Bailey, 14.1 Introduction, pp. 456–458, in The Cambridge History of the English Language, Volume 6, 1992 Dictionary of Americanisms (1848), by John Russell Bartlett
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